That’s a good point actually, I’ll cross post it here for brevity:
I got real tired of constantly recentering and replacing soft jaws on my Saunders Machine Works hobby vise .
it’s awesome for plenty of things but I do a lot of coin/token prototyping and (in theory) a self centering vise would let me swap out coins of all sizes without re-zeroing.
Enter the Xin Dian self centering vise. A little ~$70 import that seems to be good enough. Only problem is there’s no way to hold onto it.
So I cut a fixture plate out of delrin. It fits the hole pattern on my SMW …
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I’ve used my little self centering vise for round stock which has been great. Now I want to get the same benefit of a repeatable center point on cubes instead of just round stock.
This presents a bit of a challenge, mostly because I’d like to support multiple sizes without switching jaws or moving a hard stop.
I only need to do minor cuts on the top side of the cube so that helps out a bit in that my cutting forces are low.
So here’s what I’m thinking:
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We use the 4 bolts in the …
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